Both the music and text of Richard Strauss's Salome, which uses Oscar Wilde's play of the same name translated from French to German by radical poet Hedwig Lachmann, can still shock: the music with its grotesque, intricate, clashing harmonies, and the text with its...
Domenico Cimarosa. Heard of him? Try humming your favourite aria of his. Drawing a blank, right? The composer has barely stayed afloat in the wake of the masters who surround him. Working in the latter third of the 18th century, he sounds enough like Mozart to be...
Taped-off alternating seats and rows combined with strict vaccination and testing requirements so limit Oper Frankfurt's capacity that its nearly 1,400 seat hall morphs into an enormous living room where the audience becomes a character in the company's semi-staged...
Saddled with reviving an Oper Frankfurt production not compliant with pandemic restrictions, Director Caterina Panti Liberovici and her team faced a nearly impossible task: in two weeks, re-stage and rehearse Le nozze di Figaro such that the characters never sing...